Two weeks ago I received in the post a new bright and shiny verynear measuring device, my how pleased I was it arrived so quickly from Eileens Emporium.

Yesterday I received in the post a new bright and shiny verynear measuring device from a bloke in China


I can't remember ordering either of them... I already have two !

You're not the only one Graham, mine usually happen on a Friday or Saturday night for some strange unknown reason. I have 7 blue/grey Dapol HSTs when I really only need 2 

And still no IC-liveried 08... 

Just when I thought today was going so well and Squiddy appears from nowhere. Oh well 

Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 02:16:56 PM
I can't remember ordering either of them... I already have two !

Stop buying wine 

Quote from: MikeDunn on November 15, 2015, 04:00:19 PM

Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 02:16:56 PM
I can't remember ordering either of them... I already have two !

Stop buying wine 

When I do that I get a sense of reality, and that is most unpleasant

I take it "verynear" is auto correct for vernier?

Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other 

Quote from: Yet_Another on November 15, 2015, 05:03:01 PM
Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other 

It's  a play on the word "Vernier", called a "very near" in engineering circles because it measures better than a rule, which only measures "near"

Those mechanical engineers do like a joke. With us electronics engineers, it usually involves charging a 1000 microfarad capacitor and tossing it to some PUB.

Shocking 

Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 05:11:54 PM

Quote from: Yet_Another on November 15, 2015, 05:03:01 PM
Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other 

It's  a play on the word "Vernier", called a "very near" in engineering circles because it measures better than a rule, which only measures "near"

With us it was a "vernie" and a micrometer was a "mike", leading to the technician's interview joke :

Q. "Can you work with mike and vernie?
A. "Sure and I can work with anyone, sir."

Coat, hat, leaving now!

Alex

Don't forget your hard hat on the way out................

Quote from: surfaceman on November 15, 2015, 07:20:25 PM

Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 05:11:54 PM

Quote from: Yet_Another on November 15, 2015, 05:03:01 PM
Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other 

It's  a play on the word "Vernier", called a "very near" in engineering circles because it measures better than a rule, which only measures "near"

With us it was a "vernie" and a micrometer was a "mike", leading to the technician's interview joke :

Q. "Can you work with mike and vernie?
A. "Sure and I can work with anyone, sir."

Coat, hat, leaving now!

Alex

Ah that age old question to the new apprentice in the workshop, "can you go down the stores and get mike for me"  many a young appentice has returned with a bemused storeman called "Fred" remarking, "Mike doesn't work in the stores"

We used to send the newbies down to stores for a long weight, a left handed screwdriver etc.